In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the week of May 27 to June 1, 2018 with host Nina Xiang. Topics covered include China Money Network’s freshly released China VC Tracker for the month of May, how Chinese AI company SenseTime raised US$1.2 billion in a two-month period, and how the battle to gain an upper hand in omni-channel retail continues between Tencent and Alibaba.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the week of May 21-25, 2018 with host Nina Xiang. Topics covered include two massive healthcare VC rounds, including Sequoia Capital and Yunfeng Capital’s US$260 million investment in biomed firm Brii Bio, and Ally Bridge Group’s US$300 million investment in Tencent-backed cancer detection start-up Grail. In addition, there are lots of insights from China’s official blockchain report.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the week of May 14-18, 2018 with host Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma’s views on blockchain, the world’s largest Bitcoin miner Bitmain leading US$110 million in Goldman Sachs-backed Circle, and Chinese autonomous driving start-up Roadstar.ai raising a massive US$128 million financing round.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the week of May 7-11, 2018 with host Nina Xiang, together with guest Shai Oaster, the Asia bureau chief for The Information.

Topics covered include the implications of a recent murder by a Didi driver who passed facial recognition to log into his father’s account to take orders, Xiaomi’s rice cooker maker raising a series C round (and of course Xiaomi’s upcoming IPO), and the planned listing of Canaan, China’s second largest Bitcoin mining machine manufacturer.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the week of April 30-May 4, 2018, including Chinese robot maker Ubtech scoring a US$820 million around, and Baidu’s financial services arm securing a US$1.9 billion round.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the week of April 23-27, 2018, including Baidu’s new AI fund, a number of VC fund closings and six mega VC round worth US$100 million. One such round was a whopping US$1.9 billion.

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This episode of China Money Podcast, guest Misa Zhu, founder of Chinese AI start-up Rokid, speaks to Nina Xiang about his vision for his company and the future of Chinese AI industry.

Cynthia Zhang is founder of FutureX Capital, a private equity firm focused on making mid-to-late stage investments in promising tech companies in China. Previously, Zhang was the managing director of the private equity arm of China Asset Management, one of the largest Chinese fund managers. During her years there, she and her team invested in companies including Alibaba, Meituan Dianping, Meitu and Kingsoft Cloud. Earlier in her career, she worked at Merrill Lynch Securities and Delta Partners. She spoke to China Money Podcast about her views on some of the largest Chinese tech unicorns.

For Jonathan Larsen, an 18-year Citi executive, the change of joining China’s Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. is psychologically and visually massive. Last serving as Global Head of Retail Banking and Mortgages at Citi, Larsen was in charge of a 80,000 team spanning the globe. But when he joined Ping An this May as Chief Innovation Officer and also the CEO of the US$1 billion Ping An Global Voyager Fund, it was his assistant and himself on his first day......for more please visit www.chinamoneynetwork.com

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